VMware vCloud Suite

VMware vCloud Suite is an integrated offering that brings together VMware’s industry-leading vSphere hypervisor and VMware vRealize Suite multi-vendor hybrid cloud management platform. VMware’s new portable licensing units allow vCloud Suite to build and manage both vSphere-based private clouds, as well as multi-vendor hybrid clouds.

vCloud Suite 2017 includes the following products:

• VMware vSphere 6.0: Deliver business value from day one with purpose-built virtualisation that enables the best performance, availability and efficiency from your infrastructure and applications. Achieve your unique business needs, for better insights and better IT by optimising your operations with automated management and intelligent operational insight that adapts to your environment.

• vRealize Suite Management: VMware vRealize Suite is a cloud management platform purpose-built for the hybrid cloud. It enables IT to quickly deliver infrastructure and applications, without sacrificing the control IT requires.
• vRealize Operations: Automate IT operations management, manage performance and gain visibility across physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure.
• vRealize Automation:Self-service, policy-based infrastructure and application provisioning and lifecycle management for multi-vendor virtual, physical and public cloud environments.
• vRealize Business for Cloud: Automated cloud costing, cloud consumption analysis and cloud comparison for your private, public and hybrid cloud suite.

VMware vCloud Suite - Features

Key Features:

• Data Center Virtualisation: Leverage the world’s leading virtualisation platform as the foundation for multiple data center initiatives. Consolidate servers and data centers. Improve application availability and performance. Address application requirements for scale up or scale out.
• Intelligent Operations: Proactively detect and remediate issues and ensure performance and availability, from applications through the entire infrastructure stack and across multi-cloud environments.
• Automate IT: Automate the delivery of production ready infrastructure across multi-cloud environments through automation and policy driven governance, reducing the time it takes to respond to requests for IT services.
• Developer Cloud: Accelerate application delivery across both traditional and container based applications by giving developers the freedom to use the tools that make them most productive while still ensuring that applications can be moved seamlessly from developer laptop to production.

VMware vCloud Suite - System Requirements

The software and hardware requirement for vCloud Suite depend on the set of components that you have deployed. Information for each product or feature is available in the individual product documentation sets.

vRealize Suite 7.0 includes the following products:

• vRealize Operations Manager 6.2.0
  
• vRealize Log Insight 3.3.1
  
• vRealize Infrastructure Navigator 5.8.5
  
• vRealize Orchestrator 7.0.1
  
• vRealize Automation 7.0.1
  
• vRealize Business for Cloud 7.0.1

VMware vSphere 6.0 includes the following products:

• VMware vSphere Hypervisor Architecture
  
• VMware vSphere Virtual Symmetric Multiprocessing
  
• VMware vSphere Virtual Machine File System (VMFS)
  
• VMware vSphere Storage APIs
  
• VMware vSphere
  
• VMware vSphere vMotion
  
• VMware vSphere Storage vMotion
  
• VMware vSphere High Availability (HA)
  
• VMware vSphere Fault Tolerance (FT)
  
• VMware vSphere Data Protection
  
• VMware vShield Endpoint
  
• VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes
  
• VMware vSphere Storage Policy-Based Management
  
• VMware vSphere Content Library
  
• VMware vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler
  
• VMware vSphere Distributed Power Management
  
• VMware vSphere Reliable Memory
  
• VMware vSphere Big Data Extensions
  
• VMware vSphere Distributed Switch
  
• VMware vSphere Storage I/O Control and VMware vSphere Network I/O Control
  
• VMware vSphere Auto Deploy
  
• VMware vSphere Host Profiles